DRIVE-001: External Sharing Defaults
- Platform
- Google Workspace
- Category
- Drive Security & Data Protection
- Severity
- High
- Zero Trust pillar
- Data (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
Sharing outside the organization should be restricted or disabled by default to prevent accidental data exposure to external parties
Recommended value
External sharing restricted to allowlisted domains or disabled
Remediation
Admin Console > Apps > Google Workspace > Drive and Docs > Sharing settings > Set sharing outside the organization to 'Off' or 'Allowlisted domains'
Fixture-proven verdicts
Every verdict below is proven by a golden fixture in the module's gating test suite. This table derives from the last green run; it cannot be edited by hand.
| Scenario | Expected verdict |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| known-bad | FAIL |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-3, AC-4
- CIS Benchmark
- 2.1
- CISA SCuBA
- GWS.DRIVEDOCS.1.1v1, GWS.DRIVEDOCS.1.2v1, GWS.DRIVEDOCS.1.6v1
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1567, T1537